I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell

Gillmor teaches digital hygiene classes where he tries to get people to think about their privacy and security. He usually starts the class by asking people if they know when their phones are communicating with cell towers. “Most people say, ‘When I use it,’ but the answer is, ‘anytime it’s on,’” he says.

LINK: https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194

Twitter Believes Oscar Winner Rami Malek May Be ‘A Serial Killer in Hiding’

Rami Malek may have recently won the Oscar for his role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, but in a video that is circulating on social media, he is reminding us majorly of his Mr Robot‘s secretive character Elliot Alderson, in the sense that he seems to be intimidating us by his choice of life.

Rami was recently shooting for the I am a fan series of commercial for Mandarin Oriental when he made his rather incomprehensible interests clear to us. Personal choices apart, Twiterrati are obsessively cued into the speculative theories that Rami may be “a serial killer in hiding.” It’s hard to say what makes the video so disconcerting but there’s something freaky still in the blank way that he delivers his ‘I like’ monologue. Can we blame them, after watching the video!

LINK: https://www.news18.com/news/movies/twitter-believes-oscar-winner-rami-malek-may-be-a-serial-killer-in-hiding-2053269.html

Explosive packages found at Heathrow, Waterloo and London City Airport

The device sent to Heathrow Airport caught fire when staff opened it

Counter-terror police are investigating three packages containing explosives found at Heathrow Airport, London City Airport and Waterloo station.

LINK: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-47457477

Police Believe Long-haul Trucker Is a Cross-Country Serial Killer

After spending more than 30 years cruising some of America’s emptiest roads as a long-haul trucker, Samuel Legg is now is suspected of killing at least four women at truck stops in Ohio and Illinois.

LINK: http://www.realclearlife.com/daily-brief/police-believe-long-haul-trucker-is-a-cross-country-serial-killer/

‘Granny Ripper’ Russia’s latest cannibal killer?

Russian cops fear their latest cannibal killer is an elderly woman the media is calling the “Granny Ripper.”

The senior was arrested after body parts were discovered in her fridge at her apartment in Berezovska, a suburb of Khabarovsk.

So far, police have not named the accused killer.

LINK: https://torontosun.com/news/world/granny-ripper-russias-latest-cannibal-killer

Honestly, Momo Scares the Shit Out of Me

I know where she comes from, but that doesn’t make it any better, really. The creepy image is actually a photo of a sculpture called Mother Bird created by the Japanese special effects company Link Factory. Last year, authorities around the world began sharing warnings of the “Momo Challenge,” where WhatsApp users adopting the image would supposedly tell children to perform increasingly extreme acts, sharing gory images if they didn’t, and allegedly driving some to suicide. Some news outlets warned of the challenge, while others realized that most Momo-related claims were poorly supported and the whole thing stank of a hoax. The panic reignited again this week, when an Irish police department shared yet another warning on Facebook—and concerned parents signal-boosted the message.

LINK: https://gizmodo.com/honestly-momo-scares-the-shit-out-of-me-1832968759?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Extreme neo-Nazi ‘death cults’ drawing in children as young as 13, report warns

Exclusive: Children as young as 13 being drawn into ideologies ‘harder, darker and more committed than ever before’

Neo-Nazis are getting younger and more violent in the UK as teenagers are drawn into “disturbing” movements, a report has warned.

Research by counterextremism group Hope Not Hate found that children as young as 13 were becoming involved in a new wave of organisations that are gathering support online.

“The trend towards younger, more violent Nazis is a real concern and needs to be monitored closely,” researchers said.

“The threat of far-right terrorism comes from both organised groups, like National Action, but increasingly from lone actors who get radicalised on the internet.”

Researcher Duncan Cahill said young teenagers were among those involved in emerging neo-Nazi networks, but have no clear aim

LINK: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/far-right-neo-nazi-uk-extremism-children-teenagers-report-hope-not-hate-a8781941.html

expanding mind – beatnik boyhood

Writer and avant-garde publisher Tosh Berman discusses growing up in postwar California, hipster sexism, the hippie horrors of Topanga canyon, his impressions of family friends like Cameron and Brian Jones, and his charming new memoir Tosh, about growing up with his father, the remarkable underground California artist Wallace Berman.